Who And What Questions

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This lesson covers how to ask the questions who and what in a Klingon sentence.

For these questions, you use the following words:-

'Iv	who?
nuq	what?

These words can act as third-person pronouns, the same as ghaH and 'oH, chaH and bIH; however, they can also act as third-person verbs, meaning that the questions "Who is X?" and "What is Y?" - where X and Y are pronouns or nouns - can take the form

X 'Iv

and

Y nuq

respectively:-

ghaH 'Iv	Who is he?
(jup ghaH)	(He is a friend)
SoH 'Iv	Who are you?
(tera'ngan jIH)	(I am a Terran)
Dochvam nuq	What is this?
(Dargh 'oH)	(It is tea)

In sentences featuring a third person subject and/or object, nuq and 'Iv can be used in the place in the question where the answer would come.

nuq legh be'	What does the woman see?
nughoStaH nuq	What is approaching us?
nuq qem loDnal	What will the husband bring?
nulegh 'Iv	Who sees us?
Dargh qem 'Iv	Who will bring the tea?
jagh Suv 'Iv	Who is fighting the enemy? / Who will fight the enemy?
ghu' nuq	What is the situation?

In the next lesson, you will learn more about suffixes, beginning with noun suffixes. Once those have been fully covered, the topic will move on to cover verb suffixes.

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